My Goldfish

Today I bought some sarasa and shubunkin goldfish for the pond. I really like them:

Another sarasa comet and my first koi:

The fish in the pond:

 

Goldfish pond

I have been planing for some time to build a small pond/watergarden at our villa.

Here is the basis of the pond filtration system:

I was allowed a just small part of the garden by my father.
So here I started:





A week later the hole was dug:

After another week the pipes for the filtration system was ready:

The next week I secured the walls and layered the bottom:

And covered it with underlayment and pond liner:

Then I fixed the bottom drain, skimmer and TPRs and painted them black.

I found river rocks and decorated the pond border and waterfall.

  

Some weeks later water was added, though the filtration system was not turned on. The result - pea soup water. I planted the first plants. But I still need to hide the liner.

With more plants and working filtration. Still some details need to be fixed.

August 2013 - It is close to finished:

Pseudotropheus saulosi fry

I have left few times the fry in the common tank to the natural selection of "survival of the fittest", but I decided to raise one generation in a seperate tank.

Here are the small Ps. saulosi 3-4 months old:

Lake Malawi biotope

I chose the smallest african cichlids and I made this lake Malawi tank:

85х45х50см, 190l. 
Fish: 10 Ps. demasoni и 14 Ps. Saulosi


July 2011: 

 

Soon the Ps. Saulosi started breeding:
October-November 2011:

December 2011:

And shortly later the Ps. Demasoni bread as well: 

February 2012

At present I have 3 Ps. Demasoni adn 3 Ps. Saulosi, that survived in the common tank.

A have separated as well few dozen fry.

January 2013: 

 

Mizube biotope / aquascape

Maybe my favorite aquarium was a "mizubee" style aquascape - biotope that I tried in few different ways.
55x25x40cm / 50l.

It started as a Black water peat creek in Borneo for Betta rutilians:

 

 

Later I moved the idea in the nano, added a sump in the back on that aquarium and made a new setup:

Mamberama river, Papua New Guinea:

55x35x30cm+5cm sump

Live stock: Melanotaenia praecox, Pseudomugil Furcatus, Taterundina occilicauda, Amano shrimp

Plants: Marsilea hirsuta, Еleoharis sp., Valisneria nana, Nymphea sp.

 

It didn't last for long due to my neglecting.

At the end I gave up the idea of a real biotope and made an only aquascape aquarium:

Live stock: Red guppy, Red cherry shrimps;

Plants: Echinodorus tenellus, Lileopsis brasiliensis, Staurogyne, Java moss, Valisneria nana, Nymphea sp.

April 2012

 September 2012:

28 October 2012.
I changed the lightening with 4x spotlight 4w LED.

Nano biotope aquariums

I had a few nano aquariums, also biotops. They do not exist any more:

Black water peat creek in Malaysia:

15l, 38x18x24cm.
Fish: Boraras maculatus. Plants: Microsorum Pterosus "Windenow":

 

  

 

Black water peat creek in Borneo:
35x30x21cm + 5cm sump in the back.
Fish: a pair of Betta rutilians; Boraras brigitae. Plants: Cryptocoryne:

 

Here was its place:

In Summer it got overheated unfortunately and was lost.